The _Drinking Cups_ are the most highly and elaborately ornamented of any of the varieties of Celtic fictile art found in barrows. They are found with the skeleton, and are usually placed behind the shoulder. In size they range from about six to nine inches in height. They are usually tall in form, contracted in the middle, globular in their lower half, and expanding at the mouth. Their ornamentation, always elaborate, usually covers the whole surface, and is composed of indented lines placed in a variety of ways, so as to form often intricate, but always beautiful, patterns, and by other indentations, etc. They are much more delicate in manipulation than the other varieties of urns. Instances have been known in which a kind of incrustation has been very perceptible on their inner surface, thus showing that their use as vessels for holding liquor is certain, the incrustation being produced by the gradual drying up of the liquid with which they had been filled when placed with the dead body. Fig. 107, from a barrow at Fimber, is an elegant and highly characteristic example of this kind of vessel. It stood close behind the shoulders of the skeleton of a strong-boned middle-aged man, which lay on its right side. The ornamentation is most elaborate and delicate, and it is, perhaps, one of the finest and best preserved examples in existence. The next two engravings (figs. 108 and 109) show two excellent examples, the first from the Hay Top barrow and the second from a barrow at Grind-Low, of a slightly different form at the mouth. The next example (fig. 110), found in Derbyshire, is of different shape, and has the unusual feature of being ornamented in quite as elaborate a manner on its bottom as it is around its sides. The bottom is shown on fig. 111. The ornamentation throughout is produced by the indentations of twisted thongs into the soft clay. Figs. 112 and 113 are of a different form and character; the first of these is from Roundway Hill, Wiltshire (see fig. 8 for interment with which this interesting vessel was found), and the second from “Gospel Hillock,” in Derbyshire. Others of a similar form have been found also in Yorkshire and other counties. [Illustration: Fig. 107.] [Illustration: Fig. 108.] [Illustration: Fig. 109.] [Illustration: Fig. 110.] Those which have been engraved are, perhaps, the most usual of the forms of the drinking cups, but other shapes are occasionally discovered. [Illustration: Fig. 111.] [Illustration: Fig. 112.] [Illustration: Fig. 113.] The next division, the so-called “_Incense Cups_,” a name which ought to be discarded, consists of diminutive vessels which, when found at all (which is seldom) are found _inside_ the sepulchral urns, placed on, or among, the calcined bones, and frequently themselves also filled with burnt bones. They range from an inch and a half to about three inches in height, and are sometimes highly ornamented, and at others plain.